On what might have been the proudest day of Jack Burns’s long career in astronomy, he was sitting on a beach. Orbital dynamics and launch schedules wait for no one, and Burns couldn’t move his ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is now delivering what astronomers have chased for decades: a glimpse of the universe’s first ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

After spending a day at Epic Universe running from a comet-inspired roller coaster to a live show with a flying dragon to a groundbreaking Harry Potter dark ride you may be left with one big question: ...